Question 1

is this a 32 or 64 bit machine?

Accepted Answer

This system comes with Windows 8,  64 bit edition
I run oracle virtual box and because win8 has a great driver database, running virtual machines on this system is fantastic. a great mobile desktop replacement

Question 2

I watched a video of a New Egg unboxing of the product (Q&A form will not allow me to link the You Tube video).

I do have a minor concern that I will void my warranty by replacing the original 1TB hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD. Is there any way to upgrade the mechanical hard drive without voiding the warranty? I am willing to sacrifice 512GB of space for the increase in performance.

Also, is the factory restore partition installed on the mSSD Super Raid or the 1TB mechanical drive? After upgrading the mechanical drive, the first thing I would want to do is to restore the laptop to it's original state and then perform a Windows 8.1 upgrade on top of the factory default OS.

Accepted Answer

When the top array is fast enough to support a non-degenerate minimum number of drives theoretical maximum, as low as 1X in practice. Many configurations other than the basic numbered RAID levels are possible, and many companies, organizations, and groups have created their own non-standard configurations. Microsoft's server operating systems support RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5. Some of the Microsoft desktop operating systems support RAID. For example, Windows XP Professional supports RAID level 0, in addition to spanning multiple drives, but only if using dynamic disks and volumes. Windows XP can be modified to support RAID 0, 1, and 5. MSI OpenVMS provides a form of RAID 1 called "Volume shadowing", giving the possibility to mirror data locally and at remote cluster systems and that will void the warranty, so wait 2 years then change it up silly. For your health. Besides radiation will do you in way before that so it''s really no matter at all right?

Question 3

Is this laptop upgradeable to 2 video cards with sli enabled?

Accepted Answer

I do not believe it is but to be honest I'm not %100 sure. I would write the manufacturer and see to get a definitive answer. It is a great great laptop though. Well worth the money.

Question 4

I'm considering this as a desktop replacement, and have 3x Dell Ultrasharp u2711 monitors which each run at 2560x1440. Would this laptop support these monitors?

Accepted Answer

Take my answer with a grain of salt because I have not used that many monitors myself, however I believe you can. It may require that you get a few cables though, as The laptop has 1 VGA port, 1 HDMI port, and 1 Mini Display-Port. Your monitors I believe you have all the right ports, so it is just a matter of getting 1 VGA cable, 1 HDMI, and 1 for the Mini Display-Port to something else for your last monitor.

As I've said, I haven't tried with 3 external monitors, I've only used one, but it handles that one fine. Good luck!

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